well

u also like art

nah i think its more about how u present urself

u have to give it a different angle

Ah shit I lost track of time

I planned to go to not all at least, did anything happen?

nah

we just did some organizing

u ok?

we were planning on coming over and checking on u

we just finished

*planned to go to botball, fuk u atucorrect

btw did u tell max and Ben and ethan?

Noperino

oh. cuz it sounds like they k

Sam Ernest and Bowen know now lol

oh ok so ya

The smart bois they probs figured it out

Nah I think I'm fine

I just grinder stuff out

I also emailed cmu asking if I could reapply solely under meche and they said yes technically so...

oh nice

You wanna have scheduled college sesses? Where we just edit our apps? I think a structured schedule will keep away the whole "no place is as good as the ri" away from me

is it ok if we come over or no

max and Ben are just worried

Btw I just reorganized my whole drive, just shared it with ya

Nah no need to come over

Plus folks are working rn lol

ugh max and Ben want to come anyways lol do u not want ppl in ur house?

Yeh not rn at least

I gots some more work to do tonight

Sorry mah bois

ah ok

ya sure for the structured app schedule

when do u wanna do them

What time u free my man?

Wanna do Sundays or something like dat

Siris still not helping

🐱

ya sure

Sunday's I have stuff between 12 and 5

but outside of that I can do it

I cam also do Wednesday night's or Tuesday nights

alright sounds good

just let me know what you need edited

be supah brutal with meh, if it sucks or cliche just tell me straight out, "You're going to get rejected like how CMU rejected you"

🐱

roy

also are you planning on reapplying for CMU regular?

I'm going to call them tomorrow if I can reapply _just_ for MechE in Engineering, I'mma beg and cry

if they say no

I'll just gun it for the Mellon College of Science for Applied Physics and transfer, but at that point CMU will be at the bottom of my list of schools if that's the case

welp

but Dietrich! :D

I already emailed them today and they I could do that, but I'mma get vocal confirmation tomorrow

nice

nah, it's harder to transfer to Engi or CS if you're from Dietrich

I actually don't know if I want to get vocal confirmation, what if they pull back and say no lol

I also just finished tearing apart my CMU video for MIT

had to get rid of all the places where I mention the RI lol

maybe that's why CMU said no, maybe they don't like kids who are just in it for the RI

feelssad

does this mean I wasn't actually into CMU? I was just into her cousin, RI?

well RI is part of CMU

so its mroe like u only liked her bc of her boobs or something

woops that was so much worse

BRUH

now you made me sound like some insensitive jerk

🐱

hey hey OORR the Ri could be her personality

u liked CMU bc of her personality

lol, nice backpedaling, thx man

I realize that I started pouring more cheese into some of these apps and some of them I pour more personal stuff into...

im so good at comforting ppl

but I'm losing any flow lmao

RIP story flow

lol that's fine, its probably better to write out what u want than restructure it

I actually like Weedtown's questions, I really wrote a lot for that one

though it's weedtown so it's probably all for nothing

lmao

welp

i should probably get started on that

let's be real here, a 3.9 GPA guy like me has no chance at places like MIT or Weedtown

I'm thinking about not even applying and saving the money now lol

nah u should go for it

ok maybe not weedtown if u don't feel it but MIT

you actually want me to apply to MIT?

haha, that's good to know that you're not all about "oh no he's going to ruin my chances"

to tell you the truth I actually wanted to go into collegio apps helping ppl who are applying to the same place I was since it would be cool if we both got in

but then ppl started freaking out if they found out ppl were applying to the same places lol

lol

ya......

i mean theres so mch emotions invested into the college app i can kinda understand why some ppl might be mad

hey, how about we make a quick baking blog and youtube channel?

aw shit, I'm still memeing too hard

goddamnit

🐱

The more stressed/freaked out the harder I meme, I'll reach the breaking point when I make a meme a hate symbol

lol tat would be the ultimate

final boss meme

truuu

I realized now today that I actually just wanna go to a place where I can make robos lol

how did u just realize that today

I just had it stuck in my mind that CMU had the most resources and was the only place that allowed that

but I suppose if the place has a prof doing stuff I'm interested in I can hop onto that

the only places that come to mind then are: GTech UMich WPI Cornell (kinda) Weedtown MIT

Stacy too, since Aaron Ames

how funny would that be if I went to Stacy

and just hanged out with Aaron Ames

but then I see videos like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjnr2gKSu6s

And I question my whole life

iz diz wut a tru roboticist lookz rike?

🐱

this is what happens when roboticists try to force out applications

feelssad man

oh i found a new song thats pretty catchy

yeh?

The Black Keys, never heard of them before today but they're pretty good

ok the song is called "Lonely Boy" BUT I SWEAR not that edgy, its pretty upbeat actually

and the music video is just ablack man dancing for 3 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_426RiwST8

is it going to have crazy ass lyrics like that last song you showed me lol?

But I came to love you anyway So you tore my heart out And I don't mind bleeding Any old time to keep me waiting Waiting, waiting Oh, oh-oh I got a love that keeps me waiting Oh, oh-oh I got a love that keeps me waiting I'm a lonely boy I'm a lonely boy Oh, oh-oh I got a love that keeps me waiting

psh not THT crazy

damn, you're really into rock huh?

I still can't over the nagging feeling in my mind that I should give up since my GPA isn't high enough...

nahh man

remember that its just a threshold

also there were a bunch of 3.9s who got into MIT

even a 3.51

that 3.51 was a rich athlete and we know it

jk jk, but I'll bet you that robot skull from Weedtown that it was

ya :'(

before Polcari i thought MIT didn't care abotus ports

Division III school >cares about sports

lol

ya

also apparently MIT has the highest proportino of students in varsity sports

according to Tully

🐱

Maybe this isn't healthy but I was thinking about reapplying MechE even if they say no

is this what it likes to be wild? To break the rules

or at least plan to?

🐱

lol

i mean u could and its not like they would be able to tell

I know this will sound really arrogant and I can't believe that I'm still hung up on this, but what part of my app did they just think "nope" to...

ah, well this won't do my any good, at least MIT says on their maker portfolio that experts will review your shit

gotta hope that MIT Cheetah guy wrecks my shit instead of Noam Chomsky

anyway, did you finish the physics lab yet? lol

Hey, do you mind being brutally honest with me and just tell me straight flat out what's the weakest point of me is? lol

I just need some sort of answre

ya sure

I NEED THIS SHIT MAN, THEN I'LL BE OFF THE HOOK I SWEAR, JUST ONE MORE HIT

my honest opinion: I've already told u this but i think you are too cookie cutter asian STEM nerd. Although you showing that you like to work on robots on ur own time shows a lot of passion, it also shows that u like to spend ur free time in ur room building robots. Colleges are looking for ppl who will enhance their campus in someway and make the experience fro everyone else better as well. Although having the drive to do robots on ur own is really good for future employment and success, its not exactly what colleges are looking for on their campus. probably after reading hundreds of applicatns from asian nerds, your application might just blend in with them and they won't pay as much attention to it

i think probably its not bc of something on ur application, but bc it lacks somethin. A more community aspect that shows u will enhance the experience of ppl around u at college

i would try to show that more in the essays

thx man, it's good to hear from a close friend

I GUESS IT'S TIME TO ACCENTUATE THE EMO ARTSY ROY

and use more buzzwords lmao, goddamnit

np. i just tried to tell u as straight up as possible lol, i don;t mean to be brutal

nah, it's perfect

but also ya i think u would be amuch stronger applicant if u do this personal robot stuff but also u have a more human aspect as well

ur HUmanity needs to reach at least 80% and ur have 20 in Empathy

but my human side is weak, I can't show my vulnerabilities

LMAO

dang, you beat me to it

lol

lmaooo

Yeh, I had a similar suspicion so I started to inject some of my more artsy ambitions into my apps

should've talked more about the moving charging sculpture

ah well, at least it's only ED, I technically have a second chance

ya. thats the spirit

i've also noticed from a lot of college tours that most colleges treat freshman like a blank slate. most ppl have to take intro to CS and engineering classes that they are way overqualified for. they're expectation is that you learn all ur skills STARTING in college

so thats also why i think colleges care less about prior experience in these fields, and more about character traits

the mindset is that you can always teach ppl to be good at skills, but u can't teach a person to have a good personality

damnit, so don't say buzzwords like I KNOW THE INDUSTRY STANDARD ROBOTICS OPERATING SYSTEM THAT ARE USED BY PROFESSIONALS AND SOME OF THE MOST ADVANCED ROBOTS IN THE WORLD ?

I would argue though (not out of salt) that you can't "teach" ppl passion either, that's more of self-discovery

lol i would rephrase it to be like "I challenged myself to learn the blaj blah blah" or "Driven by my curiosity, I taught myself blah blah blah"

"I know" is very bland and technical sounding. but u can use ur prior experience to accentuate character traits

basicaly tie all ur experiences to specific character traits

you fucking genius

so its not about the knoeldge but why u decided to gain that knowledge

🐱

lol and you thought you were too technical in your writing

https://coubsecure-s.akamaihd.net/get/b74/p/coub/simple/cw_timeline_pic/13da6d88968/024a4c142f08af19eb08b/med_1472096992_image.jpg

jeezus lmao

well i still kinda suck at creative writing

you must have some experience though right? Didn't you also want to publish a book?

well ya

but that was in elementary school lol

ya i liked creative writing as a kid but i was never very good

ahhh

Did you finish the physics lab btw?

ya

ball toss?

yup yup

ya

I'm just about to start it lol

alright I'm going to _actually_ put all robo stuff on hold now and only do college apps

won't use my linux side anymore

lol ok

lemme k if u need anything for the lab

alright, thanks man, let me know if you need anything

are we going to grind out collegio essays tomorrow night?

lol it depends on my harvard decision results

probably on Wednesday night tho

ooh, that comes out tomorrow?

yup

alright, I'll buy you some cold ones

lol nah its ok

im not gonna be super emotional either way i feel

i'm not really stressing about it rn tho i feel like i should be

those lines sound very similar to what I said not too long ago

lol

ya

:')

also that feel when you're "too cookie cutter asian" but the clearest fix would be to be black or hispanic

am I forgettable because of my race? feelsbad

ya ikr

i wonder how they would actually check

if u put a random race on ur app

our names kind of give it away though lol

if only I was a "Lee"

lol tru

well maybe if u said ur native american

"Xing" is a traditional Choctaw surname

jk i just made that up

and if they call you out then you can play the "you're questioning my race?" card

"this is.. this is SEXUAL HARASSMENT!"

"I"M NOT EXOTIC"

that followup feel when you're not too bothered by it anymore because it's a societal norm

ya........

it kinda sucks and isn't fair

although there are a few scientific studies and arguments that I think are valid, in favor of affirmative action

like wut

I feel like it should be based more on financial history rather than race though

same

a kid from the projects should get a boost compared to a kid from exeter

i think affirmative acion based on income make sense

maybe when we have influence we can advocate for that

but rn we can't make a dent lol

https://www.xavier.edu/mfi/documents/Steele_Claude_M.Stere.Thrt.inAfrican.Am.Tst.Perfm.1995.pdf

holy shiz, 1995?

this was an interesting study (i didnt read the whole thing, just a summary)

what's the sum all 'bout?

but basically theres a whole thing about "stereotype threat" which basically means ppl will perform according to common societal stereotypes

so in the experiment, there were two groups of white and black people (so 4 groups each). 1 black and white gorup was given a test and told that the test was meant to measure intelligence and academic ability The other black and white group was given the same test but told that the results have no indication on intelligence.

thats the results

lol that chart looks hand drawn, that's kind of funny

the idea is if black ppl are told that they are bein tested for intelligence, they subconciously regress to a societal steroetype and perform worse

whereas if they are told its not a measure of intelligence, black and white ppl perform the same

has this been replicated though?

applied to affirmative action, basically since college is widely held as a measure of intelligence or of achievement, the idea is that black ppl who perform less have actually higher potential than they appear while white and asians would be performing at their peak performance, or even higher bc they are stereotypically smarter

after reading a lot of papers on robo claims I've learned to be doubting with results lol

ya, stereotype threat is a pretty accepted thing

hmmm, not sure how to deal with this new info yet

they actually did a study on women too which was pretty interesting. They did american women and russian women. They were told that the test examined logical thinking abilities. The got similar results with the black ppl swapped in with women in the us, but in Russia, women perforemd the same as men in both tests. the reason is bc in Russia there is no stereotype that women are suppose to be more emotional and dumber etc. (bc communism lol), in fact Russia has a lot of female scientists

so that proves the results are due to cultural stereotypes

so you're telling me that the liberals are right?

communism will actually solve all our problems?

lol

at least the gender gap

not so much about the whole not having ur economy collapse tho

let's hope that autonomy solves that problem ;)

oh, here's an article from IEEE that I think you will find interesting

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/why-alphago-is-not-ai

the title kind of gives away the article lol

alright, I think I'm going to conk out now

spent the whole day starin' at google docs

jeezus

lol that's probably a good idea

I wanted to continue to edit

but I bet my mind is more muddled than I think rn

yo roy do u have a study next

are you in school today?

Ye

Working out rn

Y u ask?

how to di

?

die

uh

not gonna lie I spent a lot of time just reading on reddit or college confidential about other ppl getting in or being denies

*denied

and then I emailed Brian and he was like sorry to hear that man, ED is more selective than RD

🐱

bruhhhhhhhhhhh

bruhh

wait but isn't the acceptance hogher

well o guess everyone's just competitive

they don't release stats on early

alright time to call them

What's the quickest way to di

lol, so messenger does have a queue

goddamnit, they said nah on the phone, have to do different department

bruh

🐱

fuck

what's wrong?

that sucks

oh

oh no I just read ur msg

I thought you meant something else lol

r u busy rn?

it's all right, it's not the institute that makes the roboticists, it's the person

grinding out HW that piled up, but besides that not doing a whole lot today besides apps

I took out the batteries to my robos so I can't turn them on anymore

and tangled up the chargers so I will have to unwrap them if I wanna use it wired

can i come over?

lol sure I suppose

I'm at the school and just finished circuit lab

Vara just stopped by too lmao

but he just left

yeh, come by if you want

I got Fruit 'n Yogurt Stawberry Snakcs

when you comin'?

I'll be walking in like 5 min

kk

yo I'm at ur house

Foxy Roxy missed a call from you.

y u call meh

oh wait that was 5

I can't read

GOT IN

:OOOOO

HOLY

CONGRATS!!!!

THANKS

my parents are calling al the relatives

This better not be an elaborate meme

like ALLL THE RELATIVES

lmao

alright, heard from Max, it's not an elaborate meme lol

CONGRATS MAN, THIS CALLS FOR EXTRA COLD ONES

YEEEAAAAAAAA

WOOOHOOOOOOOO

Good night this night huh?

;)

(not to ruin the mood but Vara be askin' wut ur status to me, should I say something or... lol)

did he get in?

do u k

I know

and he's not happy rn

oh fuck

wait so deferral?

idk

some other ppl got that

Vara just told me he's not happy

He asked me if he knew if anyone got in and I said technically yes

he said to fuck them, so uhhh

be careful man

ON THE OTHER HAND DOE

HOW WE GONNA CELEBRATE TOMORROW BOIIII

oh

:/

he figured it out by asking other ppl lol

MASSIVE COLD ONES

now he says he's triggered at me for not telling him

bruh

🐱

WE'RE GOING TO BUY ALL THE HI-MAGS

....

and he muted me

welp

i didn't message him or anything before

alright, apparently he's calling you arrogant rn, not trying to stir drama, just wanting to tell you info that you would probably want to know/keep in mind

for what?

lol

idk lol

nah he calls me a lot of things

so its ok

hmm, enough of this negative petty shit though, can't let a hot one RUIN ALL THE COLD ONES

Foxy Roxy called you.

You up my man?

ye

I'm still out with the fam

holy crap, that's quite late!

I just wanted to say that all this celebration actually helped pull me up from my funk haha

not 100% sure why, perhaps it's really just is as simple as the sheer joy celebrating my friend's success and happiness

<3

love u roy

I'm glad to hear it

love ya Justin

<3

alright this is getting sappy, let me fix this

🐱

that's better

what were you going to say?

and ur gonna kick ass with these new college essays

there less sappy

"you're gonna kickass on these new college essays" >>Your dream of legged locomotion indicates that you're a retard

you always know how to cheer ppl up

<3

🐱

lol

so are you just gonna do Weedtown and MIT now?

ya

which means o have more time to help read over ur essays lol

awww

thanks man

same to you, kinda, not really lol

you still up for an editing sess tomorrow? I'll buy us some cold ones

a _lot_ of cold ones

hmm idk how long my interview will last

but ya sure

do u mean in person?

Oh ur choice lol either is fine I think

When is ur interview? Mines at 430

same

wait really

is yours also in Starbucks

bruh if we end up having it at the same time in the same place

I'll raise my voice and be like

"BUT NONE OF OUR ROBOTICS TEAM SUCCESS WOULD'VE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT JUSTIN YU"

lmaooo

nah it's in arlington

oh wow, that's quite the drive

is there a train to arlington?

there's a bus

but my mom will be working from home that day so I'll get a ride

Ahh

Ic ic

Welp I need to get back to revising essays

Congrats once again man!!! You deserve it

Gnight

thanks!

g'night

cya tomorrow

Cya

how does it feel to be an Ivy boi now?

lol

the same

yo what lunch do u have?

I got second

so I can't really go outside today

welp

Did you hear?

OUR BOY BOWEN ALSO GOT IN

oh man, good news all around

he really deserves it

ya

so did nico barlos

wowow, Harvard sure loves Winchester

apparently Maddy Cordeiro didn't get in?

lol Brandon / the junior are currently probing everyone

I don't know who that is

and they should probably stop that

ya

i told them

nioce nioce

you know

I'm starting to realize more and more

I never liked CMU for itself

I liked CMU for the ppl who came from there

who then made amazing stuff outside of CMU

it doesn't matter where I make my creations

it matters what I make

🐱

tl;dr I only liked her for her bewbs

according to my mom, CMU is very good at producing ppl who go into academia. especially cuz they have very strong theoretical foundations, but not as much industry applications

so that's why alot of professors are from CMU, probably more than MIT.

and CMU professors set up labs

and stuff

to be fair I also only looked at the legged locomotion field lol

of which CMU only produced 1

Jonathan Hurst

Marc Raibert doesn't count lol

lol

nice man

Aaron Ames is from UT Austin

and then Buzz

Jonathan Hurst is 100% CMU, but it was UMich that funded him

Marc Raibert was Northeastern to MIT to set up a lab at CMU that he then took to MIT lol

MIT Cheetah man is from Weedtown

and Russ Tedrake was UMich to MIT

those are the places to aim for

alright, gotta write up apps while I'm still in this good mood

🐱

🐱

what'chu doin' my man?

doing the written part of the webassign

lmaoo

ic ic, I already turned mine in, but it should be pretty straight forward

nice

let me know if you need anything

ok thanks

wait for the free body diagram did u just have Fg and F-normal

or did u break up Fg into components

this is the ramp one

I also put Ff = 0

Carlson says that in the real world they prefer it not be broken into components

so just keep it as the whole main forces

ok

Where u at

just left the school

I'm going home to get changed for my interciew

Oh man

I dun have fancy clothes lol

Time to just wear tapout

my guy is old so

I'm gonna go more conservative

class of '59 lol

Lydia is apparently 30s yrs old lol

Oh dayumn

That's a long time ago

You can ask him about the lsd

lol truuu

You can also ask about his first gf

Jk jk

You got this!!

Imma nap now

thanks!

What can I buy with 4 bucks at Starbucks

lol

a straw

You coming back for towers?

Bbbbbbyyyy

We can talk and meme

I have a whole lot of new memes to say now

lol I was planning on it

but I have to give my interviewer a ride home

I just finished the interview

LOL

Same

When do u think you'll be here?

I don't think I can come

well lemme see after we drop the guy off

Awww alright

But mah new memes

lol

hey if u come to the sci Oly meet ;

LOL

Do you guys have enough rides? I could hang out there

🐱

no we're actually short

But howwww

Which events

Oh wAit rides

Ic ic

Wow that was quite the interview

Just finished off another cold one

ey

how'd it go

Went well I think it was like my last one

She and I talked a lot even after the interview ended

Laughed made jokes

Told me I'm a good fit

PTSD to cmu interview

🐱

nice

dude my guy was so old and he talked really slowly and couldn't really understand what i was saying sometimes

he didn't really ask me anythng

Really???

except "what do u want to talk about'

lol

Lol

Dun worry you'll shine through ur app

hopefully

I think jenn is also mad at me now lol

? y

I talked with vara and I told him that some stuff he said might've offended ppl like jenn and now she told me he's ranting with her

Vara is still annoyed and stuff regarding you know what but I think otherwise he's fine

Can I call you ivy boi now or something

Like how they call Kendall that in the giver chat

🐱

Jk jk

lol

i don't think that will help the situation

did u see what he texted me

after what i sent u

Wut

oh

lol

ugh ya so he unblocked me about an hr after the first message, sent a rage bubble, then blocked me again

Lol alrighty then

just a warning

u gotta brace urself

Just like know fam, for ppl like u who get the bare minimum done and dont really try / put any real effort, sure u might get the results u want today (and i fucking hate u for it), but when I kick ur ass l8er, its gonna be sooooooooooo much sweeter. Like fam, ngl, you have absolutely no clue about real hardship and sacrifice so I hope you enjoy today, because ur accomplishment is one worth celebrating -- ik, i wanted it bad -- but wipe that smug arrogance and pretentiousness off ur DOUCHE face becuase as much as u think ur the person that likes deep convos and "intellectuality" like in the end, like no, ur just the most shallow person on the inside and I hope that you really do end up going to Harvard, because otherwise ur just being such a waste.

Wait I didn't mean to do that

Touchscreen jeezus

That's pretty horrible to say to someone

yup...

You sacrificed a lot

Like your love life

OHHH SHIT

like ok i kinda understand the first message, hes mad and stuff sure. but this def crossed a bunch of lines

sorry lol just saw a good opportunity and wanted to cheer up the atmosphere

🐱

Yeh being real now though

That's just not ok to say

We also have plenty of intellectual conversations!!!

i mean we are competitive sometimes but in the end I thought we would be friends first and foremost

so i was caught off guard when he came up to me and told me he would not talk to me for weeks if i got into harvard

(in person)

and then this

Well he was true to his word

the most unsettling part is "sure u might get the results u want today (and i fucking hate u for it), but when I kick ur ass l8er, its gonna be sooooooooooo much sweeter."

for me

thats just so fucking toxic

You better lawyer up asshole, because I'm not coming back for 30%, I'm coming back for EVERYTHING.

lmao

Did that help cheer you up?

We're almost at 40k messages btw just 3 more

LEGGED ROBOTICS

IS

NOT VIABLE

:'(

tadaa

U got meh

U got meh gud

Btw in the future no matter where we are, if you need a hardware guy just call me up

I gotchu

lol thanks roy, i'm glad you can always come fix my hardware

<3

both Ashley and Sarah told me i should just stop being friends with vara

bc its unhealthy

It does seem like a toxic relationship

Not gonna lie

i don't mean to pin blame, like i'm aware i'm also super flawed and do contribute to the toxicity, but i feel like its mainly Vara's inability to control his emotions, or put friendship first over competition

Since when are you toxic lol

U fine man

hes sent me so many rage bubbles over the past year

thanks <3

I believe he also has a different view on friendship right!

About how arguments are good?

I mean I don't think I order to be good friends you can't argue at all but you should never get mad at the friend themselves

Disagreements are fine but don't hate the person for it

U can also see how good a friendship by looking at the amount of memeage lol

🐱

ya. his argument was "the universe is against me. i've had conflicts with ppl my entire life so I might as well just cause the conflicts myself

which is uhh

kinda a bad argument

Ngl sounds like what David would say lol

i'm sorry i was just trying to undermine varas chances in getting into harvrd

XD

LMAOO

The memes come full circle

Yeh, ultimately it is your choice on whether you want to keep the relationship

But just make sure you're thinking about what that means for you

there have already been multiple points where i've thought about that

It might seem "correct" to try to stay friends but trust me when I saw sometimes some bridges are just too far hazardous to repair

Bella amirite lamoo

but its always been that it will definitely hurt all the clubs we do, which will negatively impact other ppl besides us two

Oh man

You're such a good person dude

One of the best I've ever met

Yeh ur right in that regard

But you guys can still stay acquaintances instead of full on friends

<3 thanks roy

ya

ideally i just want a working relationship

Is that girls feel like when they reject us

llol

LOL

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Lol sorry just got a bit too real for meh

ya i feel ya. that's kinda where Jen and I are heading

Sometimes whatever happens simply happens

You just gotta make sure what you want to happen, happen

true

You've been handling it alright man?

ya

its fine, i think i can accept it

i am actually a bit worried about how clubs will turn out lol

its ok

this just means i will be spending more time out with the BOIIIIS

Da boissssss

Wikipedia took down my history :(

The next step is to re add it and put in sources to make it legit

ya max told me lol

how has ur account not been banned lol

I never had an account lol

I just clicked edit and save

Just let me know if ya need anything

I'm going to start filming and stuff for these portfolios lmao

lol

ok

Has vara talked to you again?

Or is he going to stick with his word?

Actually no need to answer that it's too negative

Idk when I talked with him he was just really obsessed over how you always achieve things

And then I'm like wut about butterbot 🐱we died

Jk jk

Just to lighten the mood

And this is not tied to our previous convo

I freaking love the neck swing

A tru master of the art of sass

LOL

u found a gof

*gif

Took some googling

Worth it

lol nice

and ya addressing ur talk with vara, I think he has this idea that I don't work hard and everything just comes to me

which is complete bogus lol

rip butterbot :'(

Envy is an ugly creature

Don't let it get to you. We know and you know what you do

Wait are there enough rides for sci oly now?

yup

oh u might even be able to come if u want

Lmao perhaps

Which car would I be in

I could be there for last minute tower repairs lol

lool ok

u can decide tomorrow

Alrighty

How does Ashley know about the cold ones lol

Did it also spread in ur household too?

no

I told her about it

Is she one the bois now lol

Did she see the Wikipedia page lmaoo

no

aw i shoulda shown it to her

One day it'll be legit

Oh wait b block in the morn?

Ready to get some cold ones?

It's on me

yea boi

Dun mean to bother you but vara just showed me a text u sent and I'm here to meme to make the mood not as bad

Am I the dude you talk deep into the night into about future tech and life plans?

<3

Robo philosophy

Not gonna lie, even though the context of how I came to see that text was not the coolest

The content was too sweet

You missed a video chat with Foxy Roxy.

Idk how to use this smartphone still

In response to that sappiness I gotta say I usually don't get really close with ppl in general but I feel like our friendship is one that I treasure as one of the most important to me

Alright that's enough sappiness imma take a huge dump

I also drank more cold ones so my stomach doesn't feel all that great anymore lol

<3

ya lol I was talking mainly about u and more generally the ppl I've been getting more close with these days

<3

Robodicks

uh

lol vara just messaged me "we need to talk"

If you want context he heard about all the rumors going around today about him being mad at you

Aw man I wish there was a way to just turn off "drama"

But every time I say sudo drama shutdown -h now

Or say ctrl-c nothing happens

Real life voice commands suck

Goddamnit Siri

🐱

Perhaps if I just shut down this phone it will all go away

that's footage from a live audience demo of Asimo in the 2000's...

oh god why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNRXTS55nY

Watch this with the commentary

it's freaking amazing

Pounded another round

I like how they advertise "real sugar"

bold move with all the health crazes going on now

wanna get a six pack tomorrow?

they're on sale apparently

yea boi

let's do it

Are u at the school rn? I just woke up lol

nope lol

I feel

Alright I got 4 bucks

Lol, a small green tea latte at Starbucks was a while 3.70

$$$$&&&&

damn really

Yeh man dat shiz' hella cash

Alright I'll be at the school in 5ish minutes

nice

Nvm I'm walking straight to stop n shop lol

oh ok

7819603202

U at the school?

I'll be at stop n shops area

Do we have enough time lol

I'm in front of the school now

ok coming

yoooooi

im getting an upgraded laptop

:0

16 gigs ram???

Yeee

and touch screen

Ew

and better display

Touch screen

🐱

One day I'm just going to have a computer that runs on Emacs

🐱

http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/xps-13-9360-laptop/dncwtr753h

Wait idk how compatible 16.043 LTS Unity system is with touchscreen lol

also has better display

When u getting this bby

idk

they're still shipping it

Holy shit 1500?!

That's like

A lot of cold ones

i feel like u coudl game this really hard. just buy a cheap laptop and make it chrash repeateldly than ask for a more expensive replacement

for the same price :D

LOL

Dang is that how ur warranty worked?!

no it wasn't warranty

my dad just called them a bunch of times

we downloaded a few drivers and uninstaleld and reinstaled some stuff

Dayumnnn

it tookk a few days and then they just gave up

cuz nothing would stop the crashing

so they felt bad

also my dad sounds really angry over the phone even when hes not lmaoo

Lolll

That's pretty funny

Dayumn

U gonna dual boot this bby

yea

we can have a dual boot party

we're gonna need lots of cold ones to get through it

Tru :'(

We could do it over break

Edit apps while we're waiting for installs :')

Alright imma work out now, get sweaty and shiz

quality memes

Jeezus bruh lol

lol have fun workin out

Thx thx

Have fun at

Uh Latin?

study

lol

lol i've startd playing smash in econ

Training montage

Maybe you'll actually be able to beat me

💪

do u mind sending me physics answers

lol get u back later

I just woke up lol

I'll still send them to you doe

lol

ya if u can that would be great

I'll be done before 3am

guaranteed lol

oh ur not done? lol which problems

we can grin them out

I only did the first one so far lmao

oh

lmao

ok

I'm also taking A HUGE DUMP rn

ive kinda procastinated until now

tired times?

ya.. twas a bad idea

nah it's fine

we can cheese these

I'm almost done with my dump

ok, almost done with number 2

this is some funky shit

i kinda skipped number 2

doing 3

kk

finished number 2

would it funny to be a subtle humble bragger gym rat

be like

oh man

my sleeves are just too _TIGHT_ today

aw man, I guess my arms are just _TOO BIG_

jeezus lol

do u have a class A block?

yup yup

damn

hmm im def turning these in at the end of the day

do uw ant to go over them in D block?

dun worry we can finish by this morning

I'm on the last one

plus I gotta work out at D block

lmao ok

💪

i just finished last one, finished part of 3 but parts of 3 and 2 confuse me

im doing 1 now

you did 1 last??

ya lol

i need a boost a confidence with an atwood problem

lmaoo

alrighty all finished

let me send ya

oh sick

thanks

oh for part b of #1, you forgot that the pulley goes down first

so u have to find the time it takes for it to go down and stop, then find the 1.8 - t

cuz it only starts accelerating back up after that

that was a shit explanation but hopefully u got it

lmao

you're the best at explaining stuff

you have the best explainations

it takes about 1.064 seconds for m1 to deccelerate from -2.4 m/s to 0

how u find dat

oh wait

big four?

and after that m1 starts accelerating back up. so by 1.8 seconds, the system would have only accelerated for 0.736 seconds in the "right" direction

ya

wutttt

did you get that all from you doing stuff

or did the interwebs also say dat

ya

no i got it

LOL

nice response

u just have to use what u got from part a

"Did you do it this way or that way?" >> ya

"how far will m1 descend below its initial level", you have to count the time it descends below its intial level as part of the 1.8 seconds

also number 2 looks so cmplicated oof

btw for part c of the 3rd one i don't get why that works

https://web.njit.edu/~gary/111/assets/HW4_sol.pdf

this thing says otherwise for part b on number 1

not sure why

dafuq THIS WAS A THING

WHY DID I ACTUALLY DO PHYSICS

lmaooo

aren't you a god tier Googler????

nah I feel man

for part c I got everything from the FBD

hmm

I'm not sure what to think for 1b now since of dat pdf lol

lulu also got the same

for 1b

for part b i calculated the time it takes for the system to cover 0.529 m,

and use dthe remaining time to calculate velocity with m1 going upwards

idk

maybe i'll just change it to this

but i feel like what i did makes sense

maybe you broke physics

🐱

aw fuck it i'm gonna just gonna finish these up during a block

i promised myself I would stop staying up past 2

(that was two days ago)

woops

ugh this week has been utter shit tho. so many ppl got defferred. i can't wait to get it over with

did u hear the massacre that happened today

?

there was another terrorist attack?

and it's alright

no

i mean college apps

tho not unlike a terrorist attack

EVERYONE got deffered or rejected

(except David, he got into Columbia!)

nice!!!

yeh, it is a pretty feels down week

ugh

ya and then tacked on theres a lot of personal drama

more so than what happened with you and Vara???

well nah its all centered around that

but Jen isn't talkng to me for some reason

She's mad that you apparently let her Cornell news slip?

She just mentioned that in passing idk if she wants you to know though

uh wut

she never even told me what the result was

I don't think you should get hung up on this kind of stuff though, esp now

Oh wait wait

I meant vara talking about Cornell

Not you lol

oh lol

Idk when she got annoyed at me I just went radio silent and things turned out ok

But I'm just shit with dealing with this kind of stuff lol

same. but she was mad at me before this week started

i dont really k why, i just k vara told me she's pissed at me for lots of reasons

the thing is we have barely talked this entire school yr

and i could tell she was a bit annoyed at me bc shes hostil whenever i talk to her but idk why she would be pissed

Are you really hung up about this?

yea lol

i guess i shouldn't be

Nah, it's alright to be hung up about a friend not talking to you

It just shows that you care

i told Vara that ya i feel like if Jen's mad at me over something I have noidea about and she won't tell me or Vara (vara asked), and the fact we have barely talked means whatever shes mad about is super trivial that happened in some random conversation, there's not much I can do

and then he called me a bad friend bc he said " a good friend should be doing whatever it takes to win that person back"

lol

but like I don't even k what the heck she's mad about and shes hostile everytime i talk to her

lol dun worry that kind of stuff is subjective, I think you're a good friend

i mean and also if Jen is willing to just ignore me and stuff and be mad at me without even telling me anything, doesn;t really seem like she cares much about our friendship

so meh

I don't think I've ever seen you like this

are you annoyed at her?

yea... well i'm annoyed cuz she won't talk to me or say anything, i only found out she was pissed from vara,

and it hurts more probably bc i like her still

ya sorry for ranting. all this drama thats going on is rubbing off on me and making me into a little drama fucker

nah it's alright lol

it's technically part of human nature

since ppl wanna understand each other's emotions and internal thoughts

but it ain't that easy

I guess I personally would just let it simmer down for now, especially at such a stressful time for some ppl

and then after Jan 1st talk to her if you want

doesn't have to be confrtoning and be like "PLS TALK TO MEH"

just say hey

ya know

and probably don't call her fat lol

ya.... ugh

btw do you know if the dynamics quiz tomorrow is just chapters 4 and 5?

its ok. honestly i feel like i don't really like her anymore. her personality kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth sometimes.

the wut

THE WUT

bruh

there's a physics quiz tomorrow

MC

WTF

on dynamics

WHATS DYNAMICS

LOL

is it basically pulley stuff

idk, that's why I was asking u lmao

(and yeh, if you don't really like her anymore then don't worry about it too much, if you want to stay friends then just take it slow for now I suppose. Maybe you should ask Ashley for advice too lol, she probably understands this stuff wayyyyy better than I do)

welp idk what the quiz is on

but im willing to just make this my drop

lol

I feel

and ya during lunch toay i walk up to her in the lunch line and say hi, and she put her hand up to block my face and said Im not talking to u and walked off

which kinda stings lol

especially cuz i hae no clue why

do you want me to ask lol

nah that would be a bit sketch right

idk how much u talk to jen about personal stuff

actually u can

I don't really know Jenn _that_ well I would say lol, sometimes she has minirants that she tells me

i mean honestly u can even just tell her I was talking to u about how idk why Jen's so mad at me

btw the quiz tomorrow is on chapters 2 -5 FUUUUU

what is chapter 5

friction

oh eeezzz

i think

that's like 4 chapters doe

ya.... i get onfused by the centripetal stuff

and the conical pendulum, and other rotating stuff

btw does your pops think I'm insane for BD now?

I heard him chuckle a couple times lol

lol probabky

is everything cool now with you and Vara?

lol nope

but we're talking now

i'm just looking for a working relationship with him tbh. i think it will be ok next week

maybe Jenn also wants a working relationship

JK JK

THAT MIGHT'VE BEEN A BAD MEME

I'M SORRY

just uh don't read what I just typed

here, let me distract you

it's actually pretty crazy how fast SpotMini responds to being thrown off balance and cease all movement before it even hits the ground

LOL thanks roy

"mail delivery"

"hiking through rough terrain"

"carrying laundry"

yeh...

ah well

I'm honestly just been focusing on college apps now lol

I need to somehow show the development cycle/demos from Fetch to Turtlebot in 2 minutes tops...

first I need to film demos of TB3

ah

over break i can probably help u

are we going to have grind sess's?

Dual Booting

watching Steve Jobs scream at ppl

editing college apps n' vids lmao

lol

yeee

alright im gonna go to sleep

for about 2 hrs lol

g'night!

cya

sweet dreams

or whatever u dream about

🐱

Ah shit I forgot to buy an nhs shirt

Lmaoo

a wut

We had to buy an nhs shirt by today

"Mandatory "

wait wut

NHS feels like the mafia

Yeeee

🐱

I finally thought of 5 words to describe myself

"I want to create meaning"

oh that's nice

or

"I wannabe sassy black woman"

Mmmmmhm what'd I tell ya

not sure if going to the star wars thing is worth it for me rn

I would pay Max back and everything but I would feel pretty bad to flake like this

but at the same time all this stuff is sitting here undone

what stuff?

and it will be at 10 so u have plenty of time

I'm really sick today so I'm flaking for TFA part

I literally did no work yesterday lol

lol

well

it's worth it :D

lmao thanks

🐱

lol r u asleep

doing work

r u coming?

I thought you guys were coming at 9

well it's 16 min before

that's a lot of minutes lol

🐱

do u want anything from stop and shop

Cold ones of course

Where u guys at

You missed a call from Foxy Roxy.

here

finally fuking finished filming

nice

got any tips for getting rid of headaches?

my SLAM shit is also not the best with corners apparently

LOL

probably sleep th

*tbh

maybe like a cold press with a towel

I read that as

"maybe like a cold one press with a towel"

holy shit

why does Lightworks and video editing software crash so goddamn much

welp

r u using it on ur linux side?

nope windows

hmm thats wierd

yo man, you doin' alright?

ya

why?

well im still sick af lol

just makin' sure lol

guessin' you're MIA for school tomorrow?

RHao is visiting btw

or at least she was interested in visiting lol

not sure i might come

but then i'd have to do all this hw for english D:

LOL

shit i'm reading a main part for Hamlet tomorrow

but that's rpobably not good for my throat

yeh, then just don't come to school tomorrow bruh

man, I've getting enough sleep lately and for some reason I still feel like shit

did I catch something from u and Ben?

wdym by feel like shit

My head is spinning like crazy

I can sit down and stare at nothing and I'll still feel nauseous

like I'm about to get carsick

hopefully it'll just go away with a nap

I got apps to write

oh damn

uh well Max and I had sore throat and coughing

so idts

Maybe I got a delayed hangover from all the cold ones

🐱

idk what helps nausea

probaby just sleep tbh

But all dese apps n tests

Fuk sleep gotta do work

welp

Can't tell if resting or power through is more optimal

Maybe rigid naps will help

I'll go try that

welp

U Mia rn?

ya

Not coming to botball?

nope

Ahh ic ic

Get some good rest man!

Also KAIST just made walking robot that people can ride in

It looks like a huge couch with legs

lmaoo

btw i have this stuck in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAOMIH7cgh0&index=34&list=PLn67-VRxpyViHLFWI-QM3ypSi8W5VsBoX

its soooo wholesome

Dat songs old news

I listened to it too much already lol

Feeling better today?

yup

but still kinda sick

oh btw got my new computer

NICEEEEE

my new new computer

did i tell u it got upgraded

bc they felt bad

Staying at home today?

nah i'm in school

Yeh this is like the fourth time you told me lol

oh lol

its so niiiice

tho i'll never use touchscreen

U gunna dualllll

ya ofc

D-d-d-d-d-d-duallll

not right away tho i have to test this comp for a day or two to make sure it doens't have the same problem

of crashing

That's just a windows problem

🐱

test this *upgraded* comp

hey did i mention i got my comp upgraded

:)

Oh god

It's a loop

*gap yeaaaaaarrrr*

Are you trying to hardcore meme rn lol

Dude I looked over my shots of the robo

And it spends like a minute spinning in a circle before it finds its target

It's nowhere as smooth as the pros

Fuk

lol u don't have to make it as smooth as the pros

and do u have the video done?

Nope doing audio tonight

And I want to be able to compete with the pros doe

🐱

again remember colleges don't care as much about skill level

remember that guy who made a nuclear fusion reactor in his garage

got rejected by colleges

Nah this isn't about collegio

How can I expect to talk to the pros if I can't even get comparable results

And also I still don't get a dude who made a nuclear reactor gets rejected lol

That's like the ultimate power move

Maybe he had a shiz personality?

probably cuz his personality was shit

Ayyyyyyy

lol in an MIT admissions blog they literally mention that kid and how they rejected him so ppl shouldn't worry about having too may accomplishments

What if they just rejected him to make an example of him

POWERMOVES

DAMN ULTIMATE POWERMOVE

I wonder what they are looking for

Besides really quirky stuff like raising chickens

well personality traits

basically they want to know that u will succeed on campus and make that school better

so taking initiative on things is probably a good indicator, a good proof that u will do the same on campus

but u have to always link acheivements to personality traits, or else they won't really care

Tell a story yup yup yup

so basically raising chickens

or food blogging in french

or food blogging about chickens in french

Oh god the memes

:'(

Just run your own bakery

They love that shit

🐱

"I blog about my dog"

HOLY SHIT SHE BLOGS ABOUT HER DOG

wait wut

oh lol

ya

but i think MIT would have a different view than stanford

just cuz they're looking for different things

Yeh

Stanford is looking for bloggers

🐱

damn

meming so hard rn lol

It hurts and soothes at the same time

I'm just going to spend the rest of this week grinding out apps nonstop

lol ok

lemme k if u need anything

<3

oh shiz

there's an opening for the soup kitchen

r u still under for hours

nope

but I love Chak's cooking

wait chakladar cooks?

bruh

what do you think we do at the soup kitchens

it's 100% worth even if we didn't get hours

I thought there are professional ppl to cook

also wanna tutor muraco kids? It'll fill out your tutoring requirement + if you already did that get extra hours

and u just like wash dishes and hand things out

I already filled all my tuoring and hours

even for graduation?

wait how much for graduation

I think 30?

well shit

LMAO

you up for tutoring every wednesday for 5 wednesday?

and going to the soup kitchen tomorrow

hmmm

are the soup kitchens always wednesday?

monthly

so you up for it?

not for tutoring probably

I'll probably do more volunteering after Jan 2

so you're up for soup kitchen tomorrow? ;)

the food is pretty worth man

and I know how you feel about

_*FREE*_

_*FOOD*_

what time?

4:30 - 6:30

though the list is technically "full" rn

but I'm sure someone will drop out last minute

like last time lol

where's the soup kitchen?

fuck if I know

jk jk

Dwelling Place, 523 Main St., 4:30pm-6:30pm

takes like ~20 min to walk there

hmm ok maybe

if someone drops out

c'monnnn

ppl will drop out

lol ok how do I sign up

you can take my spot if you want

I'm just honestly going to be there for the food

oh shit, Abby's going

ok nvm

I'm not going

you can take my spot

uh no it's ok

bring some food back to me pls

🐱

lol it's fine

u should gooo

come with meh pls

I can't pig out alone

hmm

idk I think I have to work on college apps and mahacks

maybe next month

:'(

have you done the physics yet?

only the 1st question

and part of the 2nd

alright

I'm on the last question now

do they take long

nah

I just ate dinner

and then just finished up

no problemo

I just realized that I never actually answered your question properly lol

no they don't take that long

there we go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=qYyNF0eNPxQ

And dude check it, it's real

lol

Has there been anyone besides Damian who talked about their tech and actually got in lol

🐱

well im sure rosanna and qiuyue and alex talked about their tech

but they don't have dicks

so

🐱

🐱

We gotta put in the additional info that we don't actually have dicks due to a freak circumcised incident

🐱

*opens admissions packet* "girl in STEM" *jizzes uncontrolably*

LMAOOO

jeezus

"I'm a guy in humanities"

Hmm

Doesn't have the same ring to it

lol nope

well humanities isn't like a girl saturated field. there are plenty of unemployed men

Hot dayumn

yo Roy can I put smthn in ur house

🐱

ru at the school?

I'm at 🏡

Y u ask?

just curious

did you want to come over or something lol

nah i just ended e club so i was wondering if ur there

but i got picked up so

LOL

alrighty

my senioritis is getting really bad

i'm literally calculting how bad my english essay can be for me to maintain an A- in the class

you wanna do my OC HW?

nah

it'll help you get rid of your senioritis

gotta write my college apps

I'M TRYING TO HELP YOU

i just relaly don't wanna do this fricking englihs essay

🐱

lol

does that count as senioritis

or prioritizing?

;)

true

fuck i shoulda taken drama

it's an amazing class

wait, are your apps literally just MIT n' Weedtown now?

yup

danggg

Have you finished rough drafts on them yet?

ya for MIT but haven't started stanford

you gots any time any time soon for a mad collegio app edit session?

probably this weekend

we can dual boot at the same time

🐱

dear god

lol

what ver of Ubuntu you want?

16

16.04.3 LTS?

what are all these ubuntu flavors

didn't k they were a thing

and ya

the different flavors are just used specialized ver of Ubuntu

for example I use Ubuntu MATE on the Turtlebot since its lightweight and pretty compatible with packages that I need

ah ic

it's like trying Anal

🐱

WOW

ok

i don't think anal is lightweight or pretty compatable with packages

you don't know until you try it

I've never tried it

🐱

:')

I bet Zuckerberg never tried anal

BUT I BET SEAN PARKER HAS

how much you wanna bet that Wozniak tried anal

wtf am I saying

ya idk

it seems like u really wanna try anal

u might want to get to first base first

yeh

holding hands

oh i thought it was eye contact

Eye contact during anal

actually is that possible?

I guess if she just sits

ok

ok

I'm going to stop

I'm going back to work

or rather maybe I need a break

it's been 3 hours

I think I need a break

ya

go rest ur head

preferably not in the gutters

apparently there was this one girl in her senior quote

she listed the names of a bunch of elements

but if you looked up the periodic table abbreviations for each element

you got the phrase

get money, get bitches

lmao

thats really funny

except theres not "t"

btw if u say "his murder", does that mean him being killed or him killing someone else

how could the internet lie to me so

like for example "Shakespeare describes Hamlet's murder"

doesn't that just depends on context then

do we know that Hamlet committed or suffered murder

oh ok

btw if you say "her anal" does that mean her being analed or her analling someone else

ok I'm done

back to OC grind

anal isn't a verb u dingus

no it is

its either an adjective or a contrived noun

I anal, you anal, we all anal

see? perfect verb

did you know if you say anal fast enough

you hear

"I know"

I'm actually just trying to get you to say anal outloud

jk jk

i think ur prnouncing it wrong

"Siri, do you do anal"

ROY GET BACK TO WORK

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I don't have an answer to that"

also isn't siri taking anal everytime u charger her

ok i need to get back to work too

that could be the mouth

stop

🐱

does that make the headphone jack the anus

OH WAIT

stupid iphones

can't even do anal

this is getting more and more weird

ya

roy ur really wierd

I wasn't the one who turned it into fucking phones

got into UMich

hey i just realized we don't have a meme nickname for UMich

Congrats!!!

Yeh I can't really think of anything

Umich seems a bit too wholesome

nah no school is too wholesome to be memed

We don't really meme buzz we meme other schools about buzz lol

John Hopkins

true

I don't have any memable experiences at umich

ppl just seemed normal lol

"Normal"

I still wished that you visited. Stacy

That would've been fun

taken pictures at the wedding cake

I feel like at Caltech you just wouldn't find anyone outside

everyone's doing projects in the basements

Ouch

Sounds perfect though

maybe the wedding cake is their only above ground campus building

that they use for promotional videos

LMAO

All those dorms actually just lead to underground bunkers

lol

I noticed that the mit maker videos that didn't make the cut

Are ones that don't tell a story

oh really

ya well that makes sense

Some or rather a lot of the ones that got rejected had really high production value though

I guess they focused on the wrong aspect...

lol ya

i mean you just have to think that admissions officers have to get through so much every day they will try to reduce each part of ur application to its main ideas whenever possible

and they will only judge u on those main idea snippets

"French food blogging"

don't forget she also went to Vietnam sometimes

Main ideas :')

I don't mean to bash on that girl

I'm sure her essays showed a better light on her but the way that that AO emphasized certain things just threw me off

Is there mun today?

nope

I'm just chilling at the school for a bit

HAAAA

LOSERRR

have fun at the MAHacks thing

get him to buy you dinner

lmao

do you have a good mic that I may borrow?

*possibly borrow

uh maybe

ya

when do u need it by

probs this weekend

depends on if I finish the shots tonight

which I aim to do

actually, do you mind if you read my script/screenplay? lol

sure

I also think my marth can beat your Ichigo now

>:)

fake news

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ijCQ38Ewsxr97DNRkmL_VRdTGRkCpNwtFiTb0-foUM/edit?usp=sharing

What do you think? I think I may have to cut it down to fit in 2 minutes of video though lol

i'm looking it over now in econ

have u started doing any of it yet?

I scrapped the old vid

I love your general feedback lol

lol it's not done I was interruptes

lmao

btw

Thanks man, I really appreciate it

are you at the assembly rn?

ya

lol I'll finish the feedback after school

I just went back home

oh nice

you just hanging out at the school?

talking to petty rn

feel free to drop by so I can wreck your ass in Smash if you want

or if you're not too _scared_

good juan

btw u ok with doing helicopters for Sci Oly?

do I really have a choice? ;)

NOPE

lol the rest of us suck

nah, that's not it lol

btw what exactly are we doing today?

introducing events and then playing quizbowl

I printed out sheets for helicopters

u just have to kinda talk about it

wait, we're just introing?

and then quizbowl?

I uh might just go back to filming then lol

ya

the 2nd half will be quizbowl

hey want me to come over and destroy ur ass

in smash again

or are u *scaaarreed*

maybe after I finish writing some code for the video lol

lol ok

(pussssssyyyy)

ok I'm done

time to film again tonight lol

oh do u want me to edit ur video script again

I just go finished making quizbowl questions

you can if you want

I haven't actually revised that yet

I'm just going to reshoot/shoot all the shots I need tonight

ok

wait, you don't think the script has an arc?

I just told the story of the robos from conception to function

the bedframe CNC guy also told the story of his machine from conception to completion

it's not like I made these robos to save humanity lol

not arc for the robots

arc for urself

you mean stuff like the journey of making these robos and how they affected me?

ya and what u learned and how u will use that learning I. the future endeavors

and also what inspired u to make robots

which is not super emphasized

I already kind of talked about that in the app, idk if I want to repeat it again in the vid

not sure what's more important in this vid esp since ppl in the field will be looking at it

I guess the visuals will already convey all the technical stuff

since they can actually (hopefully) recognize what I'm doing

yeh I see what you mean

damn you 2 minute limit

I'll be at the school in a bit

how dem apps going

unmotivated lol

sammmmee

wanna try to have a college grind sess tomorrow?

nah I will be gone doing mandatory fun until the 27th

:/

LOL

da heck is "mandatory fun"

it's kind of strange

I still have that nagging feeling that of why am I even trying for these higher up engineering schools when CMU rejected me

and I've tried to counter that by reminding myself that I have nothing to lose so might as well try

but now I realize that that counter idea also sucks ass

and that the real problem

is that I don't even believe in myself

aww man

well early action is kinda a scam. like in Ashley year early action had no indication of what regular action looked like

like Rebecca got defered from Washington university

Ashley got deferred from umichigan

both ended up going to much better colleges

yeh I suppose so

I should probably try to get myself into editing mode

got anything you want me to look at?

I'm almost done with my bigger apps

nah haven't really made too much progress on my apps

I think I'm done with weedtown now

oh

ic ic

but u should go celebrate with ur fam

take the mind off college apps for a day

my fam never does stuff during the holidays lol

my pops busted out the tree and my mother was like, "why did you take that thing out, we're not going to give presents anyway lol" then we all laughed

oh lol

my folks and I aren't exactly huge on family activities and stuff lol

do u have relatives

that visit ever

the last time my relatives visited was when my cousin were touring colleges

or when they had a business trip in the area, dropped by, got drunk and then left

oh right

oh

gotta love them drinking sessions

though I'm just drinking water

LMAO

lol

my parents are family friends with like all the Asians in other towns except Winchester

are you going to be ok though? the deadline is coming up real soon

lol so we have like lots of dumpling wrapping parties

ya nothing a little cramming can't solve

"Tell us about something that is meaningful to you and why. (100 to 250 words) Collecting Data?"

bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I read meditation as masturbation not gonna lie

and audiobooks as coloring books

Do you also agree that this opening line in my Cornell one is super boring?

My passion and future vision is in robotics and I believe that a Cornell Engineering education will help bring my goals to life.

hmmm i think it could use more specificity

on the "vision in robotics" and the "Cornell Engineering education" parts

tho are u at the character/word limit?

how are the apps going?

u up for a break online smash sess

(i'm currently hiding from socializing with my family friends)

if i take out that boring sentence im just at the word limit

nah I'm ok on the online smash part lol

unless you really want to

for apps wise I'm going to try to finalize them tomorrow

lol ok

i should probably get started on mine

lemme k if ur ready for some editing

you can edit any of them if you feel like it lol

I'll be mainly working on the vid for now I think

oh ok so ur essays are all ready?

ready for editing

want me to take a look at what you already have?

actually, I'm up for an online smash fest if you still are

lol ok nice

and nah i haven't written anything much for my apps

have you done brainstorming yet man

ya no i already have drafts

but they're kinda meh

and I haven't finalized my ideas

like i have some parts written for different ideas

oh yeh did you retract your apps from UCB and Buzz n' other schools yet?

ahh ic ic

oh no

idk how to do that

ayyy

Q: How can I cancel or withdraw my Berkeley application?� A: Please login to your student portal, MAP@Berkeley. Once logged in, under "Account Tools" towards the bottom of the page, click on "Withdraw Application" and follow the prompts.

but my mom said she doesn't want me to cuz she already paid and she wants them as like safetys "in case i somehow get recinded from harvard"

and she showed me a bunch of horror stories of rescinded applicants XD

How can I withdraw my applications after being accepted by my Early Decision college? You must directly contact the colleges to which you have applied to inform them you have been accepted Early Decision at another school and therefore want to withdraw your application. Please contact the Admissions Office at each college and ask what method is best -- some might consider a phone call or e-mail sufficient, while others might request a written letter.

oh ic ic

like if you somehow overdose on cold ones and kill a person?

lol ya

i'll try to retract my UCB one bc there are lots of ppl applying

and maybe keep GTech bc barely anyones appying early for GTech

isn't Jenn and Vara applying to Buzz?

alright, I'm connected to the lobby

want me to make the room or you?

yasure

no just Vara, Jen didn't end up applying

whats the room

one sec

and man, I really hope Regular aren't compared to Early

ok

the room is called

crippling depression

and the password is

kms

damn

ok I'm in

nioce

prepared to get ur ass kicked

BRUH

i wuz tpying

;_;

oh

fuk

FUCK YAAA

0-1

6% more damage ;)

im ready

ok we should do stage bans

lets go

I ban FD

hold on

kk

ok back i was walking my grandparents to their car

dfuk

FUK

fuck

OH WUT

this lag

AW YEH

is so laggy

yeh ok man

can't handle the lag

are we doing u have to change characters if u lose

WEAK

nah you don't have to

winner can't change though

oh sicc

im banning dreamland

:'(

what map you want

can u pick waiting room

oh goddamnit

lol

ew

AW SHIT WHAT

YOU CAN'T BEAT MY MARTH?!

ok this fucking lag

what stage ban and map you want?

merp a derp

uh whats the other one u like a lot

thats also platforms

LOL

idk

ok how about pokemon stadium

:'(

that one is fun doe

oh wait is that the one you want or

and btw the score is

2-1

no banning pokemon stadium

kk

and pick the space map thats not the space ship

with the two platforms and the mini ramp

lol

got it

BOOM

I CALL BS

FUCK DAT MAP

2-2

hey i want to try my isaac

next match doesnt count ok :D

fine fine

BOOOOM

that match didn't count

2-2

still

hey we should make this match count

:D

HEY

ok

we still got one more game left

hmm maybe i should stick with isaac

for best of 5

nah i'll go ichigo

wait you won the last game though

oh ok ok

oh wait

true

imma choose a map now

ichigo vs marth

ok

fuck

3-2

I WON

ok ok

we can play a new game if you want

best of

I mean

hey if u average that out its 10 - 3 me ;)

how about we go by games now lol

nahhhhhhh

and actually i have to go to bed soon bc i need to get up eary tomorrow for more mandatory fun

what is this mandatory fun you're talking about

oh like family friend visits and parties and stuff

wow lol

but college apps and dual booting :'(

ya ikr

:'(

you're busy with that for basically all of vacaaaaa??

damnnn

nah just until the 27th

:(

sam\\\

*same

so dual boot collegio sess on the 27th?

ah shit

the new shots I just filmed

I forgot that I was wearing the

"Good Times Bad Friends" Cold One shirt

DAMNIT

btw do you think I can still borrow a mic tomorrow or so?

LOLOOOLOL

and ya if u find a way to get to my house

I might be leaving tomorrow morning for mandatory fun and won't be back until 27th but I can leave the Mic in my mailbox

nah nah it's fine

Sam's got one

and geezus you're traveling for mandatory fun??

That's a lot of work

I guess that just means you're going to continue to get your ass kicked by my Marth online

wut

do you have a _Marth Problem_??

3-2

uh

8-1

ONLY THE MOST RECENT SAMPLES HAVE THE MOST VALIDITY IN MEASURING KICKASSERY

fuck i cant make puns with ichigo

ichigo in japanese means strawberry I think

rIchCHIGgOa

lmao

nice

You know what

I'm not going to show myself in the video

nah u should

it will feel more personal

I'm at the limit

doe

oh nvm then

bruh

finally finished the first cut of my video

lol

oh nice nice

This stuff is cringe to watch lol

Merry Christmas

Did santa come back for 30 percent? Or did he come back and take it all

Merry christmas!

lol i'm going to see star wars again

again???

is this what mandatory fun time is lol

well this time i want to go

dude there was someone smoking pot the entire time in the theater

my stomach hurts from the smell

LOL

damn

I didn't know that was legal

its not

lol

yo roy what did u write about for yoru challegne essay for MIT?

I wrote about growing up

you wanna see?

ya sure

you free for a college grind sess tomorrow?

maybe

what time?

I can probably if it's later in the day

anytime

I think there'a grind time prime time tomorrow in the lib

oh ya ik about that but probably not for me

awww

oh yeh for the challenge essay

I wrote about making friends in new places

so no edit sess at all? :'(

There's night in my bedroom tomorrow night ;)

not jk

lol wut

*there's grind time prime time in my bedroom tomorrow night

if you're not a wuss

oh lol

ya I can probably make it

are you out of town rn?

nah I have a mahacks conference call

is it like a big one?

wdym

its with my team members, and its starting in 5 min

ooh

I meant was it with like big company ppl

oh nop

how long will the meeting take?

you can still come grind w/ us

probably like 30 min

and then it will be too late in the night i think

plus i suck at writing with other ppl around

but tomorrow we can grind

it's never too late into the night

you scared of the dark?

fine fine

🐱

its always grind time at roys house

but ya ill come tomorrow

<3

oof roy can u give me some motivation

here watch this

https://youtu.be/ndH6UqA0QSo

That was Sam lol

lmao

still need motivation?

no that was all i needed

jk

kinda

but the moment has mostly passed

do you need a gf?

MAHacks just stresses me out a lot

🐱

YES

uh

i mean

yes

allow me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKaNqfykg

that was Sam again lol

oh jeez

ya i saw that

What happened at MAHacks?

I thought things were under control

they are kinda under control, I just stress out bc the event is only a few weeks away

and it might not go as well

I haven't had as much time to organize this one compared to the past cuz of college apps

and all my team members are all also doing college apps

I believe this is what is known as "worrying too much"

you're going to be fine

dw justin sam completely just like put tri m work on hiatus because of apps lol

ya ikik its completely stupid i just get these moments of intense stress and I like can't do anything else to take my mind off it

he isn't even working that hard he's just crying over weeb shit

lol

but aren't there other organizers for Tri-M that can take care of it

neither is sarah either lol

sarah isn't doing anything either

she kinda just doesn't do anything

she is the chapter potato

wait sam needs to talk to you

jk he needs his computer back to do apps

The stuff after "you're going to be fine" was Sam

did u call her the chapter potato or did sam call her the chapter potato

i'm confused as to when whos talking XD

🐱

🐱

there, now you know who's talking

tru

wait

if you're over worrying then take your mind off of it

unless you still got a lot of work and the worrying is justified

otherwise, chill

i still got a lot of work and the worrying is justified 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I think you should get some sleep first

that was Sam

you should def get sleep though

that was roy

this is sam now

n

goddamnit

🐱

There we go

but sleep is for the weak

jk

hi sam

Just go to sleep bruh

i mean roy

🐱

hi roy

Did you finish WeedTown and MIT yet?

If so

just go to sleep

nope

still doing MIT

i need a shower to clear my head but i've already taken two today

:'(

At that point I think it's better to nap and wake up early with a fresh mind

ya true

quality over quantity

ok instead of taking ur super valid and wise advice

i decided to make some memes

FUCK YOU

that was sam

this is roy

Justin I love you

bruh

BRUHHHH

<3

YES

why u do dis

THIS WAS GOOD FOR MY SOUL OK

tru

I'll see you tomorrow man lol

Go to sleep!

lol ya cya tomorrow

What time you wanna grind time prime time

how about like 7?

Yeh sure

🐱

Still up for a grind time prime time?

I'm getting back from the one at the lib

Oh wait the ppl at the lib might have another prime time grind time tonight

Hmmmmmm

at mikes house apparently?

ya i'll probbaly be coming in 30 min

these stanford questions are so wierd

Coming to my place or mikes place

I don't think I'll go

Lots o ppl

Ate too many chicken wings

prbablu ur place

Kk let me know when u have an eta

in 15 min

Kk

here

dayumn

dat was quick

I'm always quick

to come

Thanks for the catch on grammar lol

np

i'm still debating about the challenge question for MIT

Still???

Did you settle on something now?

I'm about to send off a majority of my stuff

I still have the mahacks topic but I'm unsure of it

the rest are finalized

and I'm taking a break from MIT and doing stanford

ahh

are you unsure of it due to some underlining tones you wanna avoid?

nah I had Sam and Sarah read it over and they said it fell kinda flat

like it didn't seem like it was an actual challenge

in their words "it sounds like 'this happened, and then this' but not really a challeneg"

ahh

I thought it read more like

this happened

and then I did this

reading it back I do suppose you perhaps should emphasis the challenge

more

hmm

I feel like I want to discuss mahacks in one of my essays

and it also plays on themes of leadership / working in a team

whereas if I did overcoming social anxiety it would be more just me

you can't mention MAHacks in your portfolio?

oh wait ML

nvm

hmm, perhaps you can mention MAhacks in a sentence in social anxiety (if you go with that)

like go on from talking about how you got over social anxiety and then talk about how you even now hold social events like MAhacks lol

well I meant more like the efforts and reasons I started mahacks

do u think social anxiety would be a compelling topic?

depends on how you spin it

not spin it, but rather present it

it's also not something that I figured out a solution for. I just forced myself to mess up more in public and the more I messed up the better I got lol

isn't that a solution lol

it's literally a psych solution for getting rid of phobias

at least from admissions officers it seemed like they were looking for qualities that suggest u can survive in a challenging environment like MIT

oh

welp shit then I better rewrite my essay lol

well take it this way too, we don't actually know what exactly they are looking for

for example that girl who got into Princeton & MIT

you said her essays were meh

and yet they had something the AO's probably liked

soooo

yeh lol

yea...

her essay was about working with someone she didn't like for volleyball

I think you should write about what conveys more about you as a person

not about writing to what they "probably" want

it might sound cliche but ya know

ya....

eh I'll see. I might just draft one for social anxiety and see what happens

nice nice

alright I need to update my resume lol and then conk out

being ill really doesn't help rn

btw how many days did we stay in dvaids basement for GCER prep

not sure

oh shot I hope u feel better

it was from summer vaca start to 2 days before GCER essentially

thx man

you're going to write about GCER? lol

I think that was my og topic for that

no it's in my what I did over the summer

but I couldn't really think of a "solution" since technically we still failed

ay lmaoo

ooooh

lololok

If you need me to read over anything I got'chu

I'm planning to send them out tomorrow lol

geezus

all of them?

nah

most of them though

damn

nice

wait is it too late then for me to read through

cuz I feel like if ur sending them soon I don't want to give u doubta

you can read them if you want lol

are you past the halfway point for your stuff?

uh I'm about halfway

actually probably less tbh

Holy shiz

really let me know if you need anything then

lol ok

nahhhh I'll be fine

alright man

just don't burn yourself out

I think Ashley gave me that advice lol

well it's the final stretch

we got midterms after this burh

pshhh

fuck day

*dat

I only have 3 midterms

hot dayumn

wait OC's don't have midterms right

nope

and Latin is gonna be ezpz so it's just physics and econ, and only econ bc I haven't paid attention to a single class since october

🐱

🐱

hmm, I kinda wanna inject more humor into my stanford one

but the stuff I want to talk about doesn't really lend themselves to comedy

When the choice is yours, what do you read, listen to, or watch?

I read porn, listen to porn, and watch porn

what a bold stance on human sexuality. you must support the LQBTQIA community *accept*

oh tru

I should say lesbian porn

*LGBTQIA porn

all of them at the same time

I like it when I can't tell whos penetrating what

or what's penetrating who

hot dayumn

that's imagery I never want to think about again

🐱

just like college apps

grad school doe

fck

wait are you looking to grad school in the future?

esp considering your goals?

not sure yet

maybe eventually after failing my first 10 startups

don't worry, if I become the CRO of some company I'll spend their money on investing in your company

;)

🐱

🐱

🐱

🐱

thanks

not suure why it sent 3

triple da pus

I wonder if Einstein would do well in modern college apps lol

since his history seems to be mostly him just skipping class and everything just to go read about physics

lol tru

tho ppl like eistein dont need to go to a good college to succeed

I wonder if I can be like him in that aspect then

perhaps I'm feeling a bit too deep with this mushy mind of mine rn

ya u should sleep

you know wat, all these BD and Agility Robotics ppl didn't go to bigass schools

in fact most of them went to what the average ppl on collegeboard would think to be "meh"

and yet they're creating more amazing things than anyone else

alright, some nice motivation to help me ease into slumber

🐱

🐱

ha memes

from the Stanford Common Dataset

those lying motherfuckers

there's an interview for stanford???

ya

it's post app

yo roy can you read my first two long essays for MIT and tell me if you thin ktheyre good?

Which one are those

community and the where i come from

I meant which essay is it lol, there's so many pieces lying around and idk how to tell them apart exactly

are they both directly under the question?

ya

lol

I think I actually mentioned you in my interview now I read this essay of yours lol

I told her about how I got roped into being Sci Oly's build event officer

oh lmao

how you seduced me with "robot arm"

🐱

🐱

I like the community essay

and if I had to think of one thing I thought was a bit weird

Looking back, SciOly has ignited the passion and potential of students pursuing their interests in science, and I am proud to have provided the spark.

in that last sentence (and other places) you mention what the community is like w/ sci oly now

wait thats no longer part of the essay

BRUH

LOL

ok nvm

then I think it's pretty fine lol

you talk about how you contributed to the community and all that jazz

along with showing your initiative and passion for science

yay

it's probably just me but with all the build up near the end

the "chip away" thing sounded a bit small scale to me

though idk much about entrepreneurship

ya but i was tryna to not be too cheesy and say "I wanna change the world"

I'm the guy who told Josh to fuck off and then tried to build the next most advanced robot in the world in my apartment

🐱

ahh ic ic

yeh I like it then

yay

I can't think of any other way to say "I wanna change the world" without sounding cheese

Did you finish the challenge one?

well I put it on hold until Ashley reads it, which she is going to tonight. Today i was just working on Stanford

I just saw the extra hour one

and I read it as

also I'm probably not submitting a Maker portfolio

"performing their favorite Chopin piece that I’ve been practicing. I’M GETTING FAT GOTTA HIT THE GYM"

LOL

that would be a funny way to end that essay

LOL

dude stanford will love that shiz

"oh shit, this guy hits the gym!? Not many ppl do that!"

wait, you're not submitting a maker portfolio???

what if you just submit your Harvard acceptance letter as your portfolio

nah. cuz my AI ind. study isn't far enough to really add anything

🐱

lol

and they don't take source code

they don't???? Then what the heck did Damian do lol

so the only way to show what I've done is to video tape my program running XD but i don't think thats super exciting

I thought he said he linked them to his github

idk he just wrote about it i guess

WHAT?! JUST SHOWING THE PROGRAM RUNNING ISN'T THAT EXCITING?! WAT

ya he probably did but they explicitly said somewhere they won't look at source code

NO WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

well its different for robos

lol

and my app doesn't really focus a lot on my own personal side projects anyways, its mainly about big initiatives so i don't think it will have much effect

how the general public views tech entertainment: program running on the terminal < program running on the terminal but with visual hacker effects < simulations < real life demos < flappy bird

lmao

actually scratch the flappy bird one

the ultimate form of tech entertainment

is watching dudes drop their smartphones off of 20 story buildings and going like "omg it broke!"

and yeh that makes sense

I'm actually still very confused about what MIT saw in that princeton girl...

or watching ppl pour milk on themselves in public bc its a "social experiment"

do u wanna read her essays?

yeh sure

"I already have 10 projects that your written as cofounder for!"

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yiw9ZK4Oa38HcYUY29r7bc5Qz2rlLhCU3hHKLxX_AgU/edit?usp=sharing

hot dayumn, you already have them setup to be your eduardo?

i told u not to read it lol

and nah they can be my josh

LOL

at least josh won't smash my laptop

those things are fricking expensive

truuu

wait so di du already submit?

I just submitted Olin

editing/rechecking takes a lot longer than I thought lol

lol

Zuckerberg 2.0

I kinda wanna comment

"should be spelled Zuckerfucker"

but I bet ppl like Ashley would see that then huh lol

lol

Just the act of submitting takes a lot longer than I expected

alright, all that's left now is Buzz and MIT for meh

oh geezus

nice!

you doin' alright man?

Does Auxivision count as a "job?" lol

actually nvm

lol

ok

and no probably not

Kinda just wanna see results come out now

Not gonna lie

Ah who knows anymore

Just hoping that collegio watch my video that I linked in additional info

ya

hey but ur almost done

it's almost slacking time

Maybe I should've mentioned it was only 2 minutes so they know it's not long

But what if the think that's too long

Maybe it's good that I didn't say that

wait what was this for

Oh god I'm psyching myself out

The mit vid I made

I'm using it for every college

So they can get a sense of what kind/lvl of robots I make

And not just like 5 lb remote control bots

ah

don't worry about it

there's no pt now

and whether u did or not won't change the admissions decision anyways

Tru

Are you holding up alright?

And did ya know that kush is another word for weed?

lol wut

and ya I'm doing fine

Idk I'm dumb and watched a video about how Amherst college ppl do admissions

And one of the AO literally said

Sometimes idk why I raised or didn't raise my hand for a candidate

I just go with my gut

And I'm like bruh

oh ya I saw that

tbh that's not that surprising given how manjy applicants there are

u just have to pray to R&NJesus

I thought all of them would be more knowledgeable about each applicant instead of one dude and the rest just looking at your numbers

Holistic mah ass

🐱

Ah well, other places probably do things differently

ya some schools have 2 readers

And shit I just realized I never sent my AP scores lol

bruhhhh

u should do that right now

Ehhhhh does it matter that much

The $$$$$$$$

yea remember stanford video

3 aps is week

WEAAAKKKK

Fuck weedtown those dank ass mofos

well actually since u self report them I guess they will probably trust u

Alright I'll send not my ap Chem lol

I didn't self report

oh lol

I'll just send them I suppose

Rip ap chem threeeeeeeeee

🐱

Why they wanna let collegeboard take all mah monies

dude just ask ur parents to pay for it

Nah just in general

And where da heck could u self report them lol

I guess that was an old thing

?

on ur common aop

*app

and there's a section on mit

Ik on mit

Oh wait I think I know where it was lol

Hmmm to email admissions or not

wait why?

oh

I mean it's always better to

Ughhhhhh

I thought ap scores were literally for credit

nah but they also "show intellectual vitality"

https://youtu.be/fQ1ajpiy09E

ayy

gotta love subjectiveness

"I thought her essay was a 9"

"Well I thought it was a 2"

Bruh

🐱

ya

oh well

I think we need an algorithm to control the world

🐱

same

tho algorithmic bias is also a thing

shhhhh

it's more bearable than 9 vs 2

is the world going to turn into A Brave New World

I just realized we both might have bias/subconscious aid when reading each other's essays

since we actually know each other any points that could be "unclear" to others could easily filled in by our own knowledge of each other

and that would apply to our other friends too

so the best way to get a raw reading is to

ask someone from collegeboard

🐱

aw wat da hell

i forgot MIT only has 4 slots for activites

SMH SMH SMHSMHSMHSMHSMHS

lol

just choose the ones most important to you

Wait a sec

My ap stuff were makeup

So idk the exact date I took them....

Lmao welp

Oh whew

It's only month

MIT apps are like a crazy programmer, they don't want to use the well documented and widely popular program (Common App) and instead try to make their own that's ultimately half as good

I got that from reddit ^^^

lol

do you know Mr. Burke's phone #?

should be on ur common app

it's not doe

lmao

under education?

bruh I'm pretty sure it was required

both his email and his phone are blank on mine

I recall him telling me on the day we filled shiz out it wasn't required

plus there's no red asterisk next to them

7817217020 ext. 4142

lol ok

you have his number??

yee fam mr.burke and I are tight homies yo brotha famsquad XDXDXDXDXD

🐱

pls stahp

🐱

that powermove was too strong for me

lol

okee back to college apps

same

alright I think I'm done with MIT

nice!

feels strange

did u submit?

LMAO

OF COURSE NOT

🐱

how you doin'?

ahh ic ic lol

have anything you might want me to read?

Else I might just sleep until Jan 2nd

lmao

nah not cureently

wel i decided to keep the mahacks topic for the challenge essay and ashley gave me tips on how to improve it

and i might mention fear of public speaking in the additional info section

Wow you

🐱

bruh there are only 4 fricking activity slots. so I have to talk about MUN, E Club in the additional info

poor looks

"Oh no I'm the leader of too many things what a conundrum"

Lol jk jk

Wait what 2 activities outrank mun and e club besides botball and sci oly

mahacks

youth cities

Ooohhhh

Why not smashing?

You can put down 10-0 me as an accomplishment :')

oh shit true

dude honestly I wish e-sport recruiting was a thing

It's going to be a thing by the time we're 30 :,(

frickin polcari and soccer, well I'm a boss at Sandbag soccer :'(

LMAO

but does MIT care

NO

Didn't polcari get an l doe

not sure

When mit tries to get their sports up

That's like Princeton trying to get their engineering up

OH SHIT WAT

lol damn

🐱

uh oh

when you hit that anxiety moment when you can't sleep anymore

uh oh

what happppeend

idk

I think I'm just going to do robo stuff until I pass out tonight

have u already submitted evyerhting?

not MIT, Buzz, nor CMU RD

then I still got UMich and WPI due Feb

ah

due feb wut

Yup

oh ya i remember umich being wierd

btw can u read over my challenge essay for MIT?

Lol sure

i finally got it down to 250 words and got the Ashley stamp of approval

“Thanks everyone and good night!” As the applause faded, I cheerfully ran to high-five my teammates. A group of hackathon-enthusiasts, we had just organized our first high-school hackathon at MIT CSAIL, called MAHacks. Inspired by its success, we eagerly drew up plans for our next event. However, talks of “bigger and better” quickly faded as I began to lose contact with my team. Although I served as team director, being the only junior in a group of seniors, I was helpless as everyone succumbed to “senioritis,” their motivation sent off with their college applications. As my attempts to regroup were continually ignored and our progress screeched to a halt, I felt trapped in an unworkable situation. Finally, with event day looming, I decided I had to take on a seemingly-impossible task: starting over. I painstakingly recruited a new team and redistributed tasks. In the following weeks, we spent countless hours in Boston meeting with sponsors, touring venues, and catching up on lost time. I drew up a game-plan to cram six months of work into two. Amidst our daily grind, MAHacks began to break loose from the typical hackathon mold. We introduced new entrepreneurial workshops. “Solving community problems” became our event theme. I soon realized this “setback” had galvanized me to instill my own personal values and creative vision into MAHacks, challenging me as a leader, teammate, and entrepreneur. Smiling, I left our second event with the unshakable feeling that, along with MAHacks, I too, had grown “bigger and better.”

I like it

Gives more context, shows more of what the challenger was and how you faced it

And that you're huge lol

🐱

Yeh I think it's good

That ap self studying section doe lol

lol

ok anything u would change

HEY that parts not readyy yetttt

The ap part seems a bit out of nowhere

im like taking complete advantage of the no word limit in the additioanl info section lmao

wdym?

oh well its an additional info section so I'm gonna put a bunch of things on different topics for clarification and stuff

Careful doe, they can only spend so much time on each of our apps so shoving a wall of text in their face could dilute some of your other stuff

On the other hand since you're not submitting a portfolio I do suppose those extra paragraphs will probably be better to flesh you out more

By the ap part I meant that it seemed a bit more like "I like testing" instead of I like learning

The only line you give a semblance to loving to learn is the last one

ah ok

Last sentence I meant

well there are only 3 sentences

so idk if i can fit love of learning anywhere else lmao

I thought you said that part had. I word limit lol

ya but I don't wanna make it horibbly long for the dilution factor. The primary goal was just to clarify that half of my AP testing was self-studied, cuz theres no where to indicate that in the other sections

and the learning was like a side thing

I guess the core of what I'm saying is that if I didn't know you and I read that I would want to know more about why you did that. Cuz anyone else could see it as just "this kid just wants dat ap grind time"

I'm also in quite the existential mood rn lol so I would advise not to listen too closely to what I say rn

ok lol i'll see about fixing that

I guess I'm at that point wondering if I tried hard enough

It's not like I spent each day until I passed out

There were days where I just sat back and listened to music while waiting for something to build or compile

ya but thats also valuable

Instead of doing something more benefactors like reading up on documentation

reading up on documentaiton would not helped u get into college, and would have minimal effect in helping u with other things as well

im saying if u had spent ur break time reading documentation instead of just sitting back

It's not about college anymore, I'm starting to wonder why fetch broke why the turtlebots algorithm is janky I'm starting to just wonder if I'm one of those ppl who will never reach there dreams because literally just physically I'm incapable

Sure those stories about ppl trying their hardest are nice but are they actually content with what they are doing

I guess it's not about being content but rather understanding yourself

But even then wouldn't it be frustrating to see that one day you're not who you thought you were or could be

There are millions of ppl who just die, be it from old age or accidents, that never achieved much, much as in what other ppl see but more importantly what they see in themselves

I suppose the direct answer would be "that's life" or "cest la vie"

But that's a shitty answer

That's just like saying, no, we can't break light speed

How frustrating is that

Maybe it's the shadow of failure that's looming over me right now or perhaps it's the crippling idea of self doubt

All I know is that I want to create

Create something that this world hasn't seen before, not simply for the novelty

But rather for itself

The desire to create meaning is what drives me

But what happens if there actually is no meaning

HOLY SHIT THAT WAS EDGY DAMN BOI

ya there really isn't meaning

Thx man that was super reassuring

🐱

<3

I think I just went through a cycle of existential crisis, self doubt, self reflection, self contemplation, self debate, and finally, sarcasm and memes

and ya i feel u, I've thought a lot about that too, like regret and looking back in 30 yrs and wishing I had done xyz. That's why I'm unhealthily paranoid about taking all the opportunities that I get. I'm kinda chronically overloading myself bc I'm always afraid I will regret not doing something if I turn it down. It's fricking scary to think that if you say end up in dorm 34 in college u could be the next Zuckerberg or Eduardo, but if your dorm 33 you can end up as a normal white worker.

all the "what ifs" in life kill me

and about the meaning of life, ya I really don't think there is a meaning, its really just what goals you want to set urself onto. creating meaning is creating meaning -for urself- right so as long as u think its meaningful than it is

Yeh

personally I think I'm driven by the desire to create as much positive impact on the ppl in the world as I can. I want to leave the earth knowing I bettered it

and also I want to be remembered so I can continue living in history

and won't actually die

but the second one is my selfish drive, the first one is my selfless drive and both motivate me a lot

I used to think that since life has no meaning that makes life so much more meaningful living it But now I think it's more about since life has no meaning it's up to you to create meaning. Like a blank canvas it's nothing but possibilities but the catch is that there's only one canvas

Idk if I have a selfish or selfless drive if that's possible, it's more like the act of creating is what enraptures me to the point where it doesn't matter the motivation, the flame of it just exists

Sure if if another motivation whether it be selfish or selfless pops up it'll add to the palate

But it's not the palate or brush

I say this as Emacs crashes

Lmao

It's not like I feel content or happy when I "finish" making something. It becomes more like, what's next

I've never really broken it down that much before

Maybe I'm just creating for the sake of creating

Idk at this point

Perhaps when I get the point where I've made something bigger and better I'll come back to rethink this point

ah

well u don't necessarily need a reason to create

(unless u want funding)

🐱

but then u can just say something about militarys and disasters and then spend all the money on a useless jumping robot

🐱

I say all this but I still don't think all creations are equal from even conception to realization in the real world

When I told josh that I didn't find any of his projects interesting it's actually how I feel with a lot of different tech rn in real life

Maybe I'm so drawn to legged locomotion because it gives the possibility of being so much more than just " another machine"

Machines can only go so far and I believe that true for art tools

*too

Perhaps I just want to create something that will surpass what I can create

And in that paradoxical pursuit I find myself wondering what that could be

Though I suppose I'll never find out until I actually make it

Wow I just poured a lot of shit out lol

Maybe I should go to sleep

lol

thats interesting

and ya u should

i should to

Maybe I'll put this convo up on my wall lol

lol

wow

this Stanford roomate essay is quite... something

Virtually all of Stanford's undergraduates live on campus. Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate — and us — know you better. (100 to 250 words) I don’t make concrete [non-tentative] plans often, but if we decide to meet somewhere on campus for lunch or to go out for dinner, don’t bail on me. If you commit to doing something with me, go through with it. If it ends up being horrible we’ll do something else. Hot water gets me thinking. You’ll quickly get used to me stepping out of the shower or a hot tub wondering why humans (and not manatees) have the power of rational thought and creativity. If you don’t like TV or movies, you’re in trouble; I can and will relate nearly any situation to Family Guy, Archer, Zoolander, Anchorman, or South Park. Furthermore, prepare to be shown many irreverent clips from dozens of different shows and films [is there a single word to describe shows and films?]. I love to sing. Everyone else hates it, because I’m horrible at singing. I know all of the lyrics to any song after 2-3 listens, and I will Google a song’s lyrics just to prove myself right (and you wrong, if it comes to that). If I’m wrong, I’ll accept defeat. It would be prudent for you to do the same. I will stay in my towel for anywhere from ten minutes to an hour after I shower. When I text you, I expect a response promptly. I have no patience for someone who takes three days to get back to me with just a “k,” and I will call you out on it. If I’m peeling a banana and accidentally make a hat by peeling a circle around the top of it, I will show you.

"If I'm wrong I'll accept defeate. It would be prudent for you to do the same" lmao

this person sounds pretty scary

that girl sounds like a no no

as in

no no, I don't want to talk to you

DID U JUST ASSUMER GENDER

:O

IT SAYS THAT PERSON STAYS IN A TOWEL FOR UP TO AN HOUR

no respectable guy does that

its actually a dude

XD

holy shit

are you serious

lol yes but this guy isn't very respectable

hot damn

is this what they look for at weedtown lol

the comments on college confidential completely roasted him

did he get in?

"Generally, I tell posters that it is not a good idea to post their essays because they risk someone submitting it as their own. However, I am fairly confident that nobody will steal this essay. I always try to find something positive to say in a critique, so: Kudos on giving an example of what not to write for the Stanford roommate essay. If this is supposed to be serious, I'd suggest starting over."

it didn't say

damnnnnnn

he was posting his draft

that's quite the roast

that roast probably burned his towel

"Remove the "to prove myself right and you're wrong" after you talk about song lyrics. You sound childish and stubborn. Remove all of this -- If I’m wrong, I’ll accept defeat. It would be prudent for you to do the same. I will stay in my towel for anywhere from ten minutes to an hour after I shower. When I text you, I expect a response promptly. I have no patience for someone who takes three days to get back to me with just a “k,” and I will call you out on it. Don't even try to rephrase that. You sound annoying and childish for already putting all these rules on your roommate. You sound childish for being so hurt by text messages. Some people just don't care about texting and will not text you back. The whole thing sounds like a threat and makes you seem incredibly overbearing."

ya damn this person is like extreme david but creepier

LOL

damn boi

this person would hate how I treat social media lol

"if I'm wrong I will accept defeat. It will prudent for you to do the same" lmao i can't get over this line

it so funny in how out of place it sounds

I wonder if that person actually wrote from the deepest part of their heart

and that came out

it must've been pretty crushing to have ppl from collegeboard tell him he's a wuss lol

thats a pretty sad existence man

if that came from the heart

lol

or maybe he had abusive parents idk i'll try not to judge

btw how did u format ur MIT activity list?

one sec

I just wrote a little paragraph for the description

oh ok

are you close to being done now? Considering you know

"@mommyrocks‌ thank you for your advice. After reading the comments and looking at my writing again, I realized that I do indeed come off as overbearing and somewhat vindictive like @surfer2attorney said. "

wow, despite their initial impression from their essay

this person takes criticism well

perhaps they were just _really_ off on how they convey themselves in writing

ya i'm just doing activity section now

and then I'm gonna have Ashley read through my entire package and then submit

i might add a bit more to the additional info

LOL

damn you sure want to use that additional info section

bruh its perfect! no word limitit

and the rest of MIT's app is so restrictive

yeh it really is

I wonder why

"Love jamming out with teammates while working on robots 24/7 before our international competition (GCER) every year. Botball is family."

<3

I'm putting that as my description.

LOL

you sappy

ya lol i usually hate cheese but i'm letting it pass this time

my og description was so bland, i just listed some awards and shit so

gotta have that sap

funnily enough, I actually did a similar thing

wrote about how making the team feel like a family is just as important as working hard and building the robots

<3

wait in ur activity section?

yeh

damn boi 40 words

I gave the shortest summary of botball I could lol

gotta throw in autonomous

cuz that's what separates us from FIRST

:')

lol

what if is say "Sci Oly is 2nd family"

ouch that would be kinda bad cuz i wrote an essay about it

LOL

yeh...

I actually didn't mention sci oly in my activities section

just mentioned the 6th place

esp since in my interview

when I told her about how I ended up joining

she said, "haha, so it's basically another excuse for you to make more robots?"

and in my head I thought, "holy shit, you got meh"

actually, now that I think about it

I don't actually really do a lot of school extracurriculars lol

lmao

lmao

wait what were ur 4?

is that going to be my downfall? :')

I shouldn't think about that

fuk

Robots, Botball, Papercrafts, and paper

not sure whether or not to replace the paper with sci oly

Didn't you do Botball, Sci Oly, Youth Cities, and MAHacks?

ya

wait whats paper

paper and papercrafts?

ppr from sophomore year

the wut

was that ur internship?

did you know I was in your bio and chem class?

🐱

lol what does ppr stand for

i thought u worked for aptima

I made a paper in botball remember, and then presented it lol

OOH that kind of paper

ppr stands for paper

lol nice

tho i feel like thats more of a scholastic distinction than an activity

cuz like what did u put for the hours and weeks?

da fuk is a scholastic distinction

its not really a regularly occuring activity

the awards section

awards / distinctions

oh truuu

alright, I'mma put sci oly in then

thx thx

wow you sure know what you're doing

🐱

i have carefully and exhaustively studied the MIT application form since 9th grade

that's uh

damn

jk

like 10th grade

wait, how many weeks does sci oly take place for lol

im not obssessed

yeh, that helps your case a lot bruh lol

i said 36

alrighty

for all my clubs

really?? Isn't botball a lot more

like 45-ish

oh for Botball i did 38

we don't do botball for only like 2-ish months lol

36 is how many weeks are in a school year

and i added 2 weeks for GCER and extra meetings

alright, I'll put 38 too then

gotta keep consistency

or I can put like 900

lol

well i guess 36 is in pure numbers tho, technically the school yr is longer

in weeks

how about we just settle on 40

actually nvm i just counted

if u take out the breaks and stuff its 36

i forgot that I had actually counted them before as well

so 36 or 38?

38 for botball

kkkk

38 botball, 36 sci oly

time to write something about sci oly lol

We compete in monthly Regional Meets and annual State Meet and placed 6th (2016 & 2017) in Massachusetts. SciOly’s more than doubled in size since its founding. Our focus now is giving back to the community through educational outreach programs.

i tailored my description to feed into my app essay tho

Oh, I was going to be a bit more memey

so u might want to have diff focus

lol ya sure

and talk about making 20 dollar shit in my basement

"I am in charge of all the engineering and building events, such as robot arm in which I placed 2nd regionally, not bad for a budget of 20 bucks. In states we placed 6th in 2016 & 2017."

Is this too memey

hmm, actually on average how many hours do we spend at botball...

i said 6

wait actually i said 7

cuz of all the basement days lol

LOL

yeh I felt like 6 is kinda short

I did some rough estimates

and I think the total number of free time we have if we optimize everything is around 70 hours a week

not factoring in HW

factoring in HW that probably goes down to half lol

(HW including studying)

so around 45 hours

but then there's transportation time everyday

so cut down like 5 or 6 hours per week

leaving only around 40 hours

oh lol

ya i've tried to estimate it. In junior yr I put arule on myself to always be working at least 2/3 of my concious hours

and the other 1/3 is mainly transportation, eating, showering etc.

and i only get free time after I've fulfilled my 2/3

it worked for a while until I burned out

lol, maybe I should change how I organize my things/time then

also it makes u realize how much time we spend just walking or eating or talking

I consider my personal robos as free time

why do you think I listen to robo lectures while eating and working out? :')

lol tru

ya getting audible has been so helpful

I was also estimating with 6 hours of sleep

so to be "healthy"

it should've been 8 hours

so subtract 14 hours

and that leaves 26

but that's so low

smh

oh lol

ya on my daily schedule i had 5 hours allotted for sleep

as a maximum

i was kinda crazy in jr yr, no wonder I burned out

Wat

how did you burn out

5 hrs

is so much

🐱

🐱

are you freaking insane bruh

ya... like u k the red botball notebook i used to carry around?

I would plan every hr of my day, and make sure I was doing work for at least 2/3 of my concious hours

I would always schedule things up to 2 AM, estimating my wakeup time to be 7

bruh

bruhhhhhhhhhhh

i've learned my lesson now

i'm only scheduling up to 1 am now

wow

nice improvement

🐱

have u ever burned out significantly?

actually funny thing is what got me out of the burnout was the GCER cram sess this yr lol

nope never burned out significantly

if I ever get close I usually just end up sick lol

which kind of resets it for me

gotta love weak immune/respiratory systems

helping you out in jams that are questionably helpful

lol

btw did u put GCER as a summer activity?

how many hours did u put

oh wait

I need to check

well let's see

we spent like 8 hours per day there

for 3 weeks

8 * 7 = 56

er wait

that seems like a lot

lol

I put down 40

there are 168 hours a week

and with 8 hours of sleep

that leaves 112 hours

and lets say there's 14 hours per week for transportation and shit

with some food and some self-hygeine

leaves like 95 hours per week

of pure anything we want during the summer

wait wut

I'm saying your summer hours shouldn't go over like 100 hours max or else it'll be unrealistic

and that I put 40 hours for botball in the summer

ah ok

dat feel when you realize all you do relates back to robos

oh god

well

thats not a bad thing

"Robotics isn't viable" -Google

🐱

🐱

pressing that submit button is actually so nerve wracking

are u doing it now?

I'll do it tomorrow at 11:58 pm

🐱

lmao

alright, all that's left to send is MIT...

I'm sorry grandma I just found out my grandmother died this morning. When I visited last I showed some interest in Johns Hopkins. I knew I was never a good enough applicant to be accepted there, but for some reason she always thought I would get in, and go there and visit her all the time. I'm sorry granny, I guess i'm not good enough. I just found that on reddit holy crap that's depressing

holy shit

.....

btw u k whats also depressing

MIT's fricking additional info section has a 600 word limit

BUT THEY DON'T SAY THAT ANYWHERE

MY ADDITIONL INFO IS AT 1300 WORDS WTF

LOL

BRUH

yeh MIT's app is pretty jank

I found out when i clicked "save"

oh did, you click the

but it still didn't tell me what the limit was

yup

that's how

lol

so i slowly shaved off sentences

until it accepted it

lmao

to find the word limit

i'm really not digging MIT's website right now

that's either some hard core trolling or a grievous oversight

holy shit, did you just say you didn't like something related to MIT?

Who the fuck are you

🐱

🐱

yeh, it's really strange how their website is laid out

it's almost like it never got updated past 2010

lmaoo

is this too edgy

or do u think MIT admissions officers will have a sense of humor

i'm putting a link to a webpage in my additional info section, and I made it a TinyURL that reads "https://tinyurl.com/pleaseacceptme"

XD I think i'm gonna keep it

you look like a nerd

🐱

tiny arms

that's pretty funny

why you been using the "XD" so much lately?

I am?

probably cuz memes

did u check ur essays before u submit?

bc myMIT has been cutting out random words from my paragraphs

really?

That's weird

did you use the "preview" button?

ya

I submitted tho

THE DEED IS DONE

congrats!!!!

🐱

thx

idk why I'm doing this

but I'm on reddit reading stories about ppl who got rejected from literally all their schools

geezus

🐱

bruh

go watch some anime

or romcoms

are u done with submitting?

still reviewing MIT

but then still got UMich and WPI in feb

some kid got rejected from all 9 schools with a 3.6 uw, 4.5 w GPA?

I don't even know if that's bad, ok, or good GPA anymore lol

I think that's like ok but not great gpa

cuz of the uw

the w is trippy bc some schools have 5 or 6 or scales

6?!

bruh

ya. so weighted is dumb

also remember the GPA is like one of the smallest things on ur app

it's more about the rest of ur stuff

wait, I actually don't know if our GPA's are weighted or not

lmao

fuk

wdym

wait, the GPA's they show us on our transcript is weighted right?

so wouldn't 3.9 actually be a lot lower UW

ya

https://blog.prepscholar.com/whats-an-unweighted-gpa-how-to-calculate-it

welp shiz, should've applied to a 70%+ school

Winchester does unweighted wierd

an A and A+ are both 4.0

whereas our school has A as 3.7

welp shit, our uw must be pretty low by default then

that's why u have like the average uw GPA of UCB students is 3.95

no I mean colleges will recalculate

they don't send ur unweighted GPA to schools

you sure?

ah man idk why I'm even thinking about this stuff anymore lol

I'm pretty sure on the transcript the uw is not there

like remember the meeting with guidance?

yeh you're right

hot dayumn

I wish I knew the reason for why you can have random bursts of panic over something

bc prolonged panic is impractical for survival and no panic will kill you

thx evolution

🐱

"I submitted my common app essay but realized I had a large space between paragraphs. Will this be bad?"

Holy shit

everyone on reddit is freaking out

it's like watching mass hysteria

in text form

🐱

auto reject

Trying to figure out what to do...

Might as well just work out I suppose

yo

what's cooler

a biped or a quadruped

biped

well I feel like quadrepeds are slightly easier cuz balance?

yeh they are

whym

*why

do u ask

looking for the next thing to make

alright

just submitted MIT

I guess I should go study for midterms now

bruh

midterms week is all half days

you'll be fine

I'm not actually sure how to spend the rest of my day lol

hey hey wanna write my stanford app for me

holy fucking shit

you didn't finish that yet?!

BRUH

nope

im doing the last question

alright, I'mma help ya

then gotta go back and edt

nah its ok

but i'll let u k when i need editing

I'mma read all dat juicy unedited paragraphs

HMMMMM UNEDITED WRITING

that felt creepy to say

"Thrown into the room of artist"

whoa, napping from 7pm really screws with you

lol

I'm not going to school tomorrow ntw

Wat

20% bc college apps and 80% bc I don't want to XD

senioritis is hitting so hard

Aren't u done doe

Holy shit bruh, midterms haven't even started lol

ya I wasn't able to finish stanford cuz I was out most of the day doing family stuff for new years

Wait wat, you didn't submit weedtown?!

well they're pretty finalized like I can probably finish in 2 or 3 hrs

nope

it's due tonifht

Oh Jan 2

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Ahh ic ic

I think I need a change of pace so I'm going to school tomorrow

How's grinding

lol I just woke up

woops

Bruh

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on the brightside i found this sicc catchy beat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_gRaCpItpA

i'm planning on submitting before Ashley leaves for Chicago, around 3 PM

Nice nice

I've just been working out

ah speaking of which i broke the contract with Tanishk woops

i'll go workout tomorrow instead

Bruh

U better lawyer up asshhole

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hey can u read one of my essays

or are u in class rn

I'm working out rn lol

lmao

I typed that while doing push ups

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wow

i'm proud of u

but hey wanna read my essay while doing puhsuo

jk whenever u have free time just hmu pls

You can send it now

I'm just doing weights

Somewhere in space, my code wooshes by at 30,000 kilometers-per-hour. Yes my code. That jumble of wordy comments and sketchy bug-patches I had thrown together during my internship at Accion-Systems. I sometimes peer up at the night sky and wonder if I could spot the satellite using my code for its propulsion system. What is it doing? Collecting weather data perhaps? Or MAYBE conducting secret military reconnaissance over Afghanistan. I’ll go with the second one. I know, it’s absurd. But this unshakable feeling, that years of self-taught knowledge and practice have culminated in a tangible effect on the world -- this is why I wake up every morning excited to learn. I have always been more compelled by what learning allows me to do rather than the simple accumulation of facts: Learning basic circuitry in 6th grade allowed me to create an ultrasonic glove to help my blind classmate better navigate the school halls. Learning to play my grandpa’s favorite Chopin ballade touched his heartstrings, and mine. Months of learning and practice led to the first time my robot *whirred* and *clicked* to life. To me, learning is the ultimate actuator, granting me the ability to mold and shape the world around me and to touch the lives of others. Each piece of knowledge is a backstage pass to access the whirring gears and pistons of the great universal machine. Although I have only one pair of hands, the power of learning has extended my reach 2000 kilometers into space.

Imao actuator

Technically your hands would be an Omni transversal gear

i hope those english majors know what that is

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Jk jk

That term was made up

I'm sure English majors know words

I like it though

ok

anything i should change?

The pair of one hands

I would like to see a bit more expansion on the last sentence if possible

wdym by expansion

Cuz it doesn't directly tie back with the learning part

It's about ur hands and ur reach

If you read just that sentence and your beginning it seems a bit disconnected

ok